Rose and Crown, High Road, Knightsbridge, Westminster, Middlesex, England
Notes: The High Road's rambunctious nocturnal character stemmed naturally enough from the combined presence of several old inns and the cavalry barracks. Perhaps the earliest was the Rose and Crown, formerly the Rose, a few doors along at No. 16 High Road, said in the 1850s to have been licensed more than 300 years. This establishment, reputedly used as quarters by Cromwell's troops, was called the Oliver Cromwell in the 1840s.
The Rose and Crown was licensed for music and dancing from 1852 to 1876.
Probably the oldest structure at this time was the Rose and Crown, which bore the date 1679, and had timber built galleries at the rear, overlooking a spacious stableyard.
[source: 'Knightsbridge Green Area: Scotch Corner and the High Road', Survey of London: volume 45: Knightsbridge (2000), pp. 79-88. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=45909 Date accessed: 21 February 2009.]
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| 1 |  Downs, Benjamin Henry | 2 Apr 1871 | Rose and Crown, High Road, Knightsbridge, Westminster, Middlesex, England | I362 |